Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society

2017

Billington, J., Robinson, J. , Longden, E.
A Literature-Based Intervention for Women Prisoners: Preliminary Findings
International Journal of Prisoner Health

Davis, P. and Billington, J.
The Very Grief a Cure of the Disease
Changing English Special Issue: Uses of Poetry.

2016

Billington, J.
Is Literature Healthy? Literary Agenda Series, ed. P. Davis.
Oxford University Press

Davis, P., Magee, F., Koleva, K., Tangeras, T.M., Hill, E., Baker, H., 
'What Literature Can Do’: An investigation into the effectiveness of shared reading as a whole population health intervention
Guys and St Thomas Charity
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Gray, E., Kiemle, G., Davis, P., Billington, J.
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experience of Being in a Reader Group
Arts & Health: International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, doi:10.1080/17533015.2015.1121883

Longden, E., Davis, P., Carroll, J., Billington, J.
An Evaluation of Shared Reading Groups for Adults Living with Dementia: Preliminary Findings
Journal of Public Health, 15(2):75-82, 2016.

2015

Longden, E., Davis, P., Billington, J., Lampropoulou, S., Farrington, G., Magee, F., Walsh E., Corcoran, R.
Shared Reading: assessing the intrinsic value of a literature-based health intervention
Journal of Medical Humanities, 41:113-20

O'Sullivan, N., Davis, P., Billington, J, Gonzalez-Diaz, V., Corcoran, R
“Shall I compare thee": The neural basis of literary awareness, and its benefits to cognition
Cortex, 73:144-57.

2014

Billington, J., Jones, A., Humphreys, A.L., McDonnell, K.
A literature-based intervention for people with chronic pain
Arts and Health: International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 8:13-31.
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Davis, P.
Reading and the Reader, Literary Agenda Series
Oxford University Press

2013

Billington, J., Carroll, J., Davis, P., Healey, C., Kinderman, P.
A literature-based intervention for older people living with dementia
Perspectives in Public Health, 133: 3, 165-73.
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Billington, J., Davis, P., with Farrington, G.
Reading as Participatory Art: An Alternative Mental Health Therapy
Journal of Arts and Communities, 5:1, 25-40

2012

Billington, J.
Reading for Life: prison reading groups in practice and theory
Critical Survey, Special Issue, Reading and Writing in Prisons, 23:3, 67–85

Davis, J.
The Reading Revolution
In Stop What You’re Doing and Read This!
Random House.

Davis, P. James L. Keidel , Victorina Gonzalez-Diaz, Clara D. Martin, Guillaume Thierry
How Shakespeare tempests the brain: neuroimaging insights
Cortex. 48:5, 21-64.

Dowrick, C., Billington, J., Robinson, J., Hamer, A., Williams, C.
Get into Reading as an intervention for common mental health problems: exploring catalysts for change
Journal of Medical Humanities, 38:15-20.

Macmillan, Angela ed.
A Little More Aloud for Children
David Fickling Books.

2011

Billington, J., Sperlinger, T.
Where Does Literary Study Happen?
Teaching in Higher Education Special Issue: Leaving the Academy 16:5, 505-16.

2010 & Older

Macmillan, Angela ed. (2010)
A Little, Aloud
Chatto & Windus.

Davis, J. (2009)
Enjoying and enduring: groups reading aloud for wellbeing 
The Lancet, 373: 9665, 714-15.

Davis, J. (2008)
Getting into Reading. In Sue Hornby and Bob Glass ed Reader Development in Practice: Bringing Literature to Readers
Facet.

Davis, P., Thierry G., Martin, C.D., Gonzalez-Diaz, V., Rezaie, R., Roberts, N., Davis, (2008)
Event-related potential characterisation of the Shakespearean functional shift in narrative sentence structure
NeuroImage 40: 923-931.

Davis, P. (2008)
Syntax and Pathways
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 33: 4, 265-77.

Hodge, S., Robinson, J., Davis, P. (2007)
Reading between the lines: the experiences of taking part in a community reading project
Medical Humanities, 33: 100-104.

Davis, P. (ed) (1997)
Real Voices: On Reading
Macmillan.

Davis, P. (1991)
The Experience of Reading
Taylor & Francis.

Davis, P., Magee, F., Koleva, K., Tangeras, T. M., Hill, E., Baker, H. (2016)
An investigation into the effectiveness of shared reading as a whole population health intervention

What Literature Can Do: Full Report

Billington, J., Farrington, G., Lampropoulou, S., McDonnell, K., Jones, A., Ledson, J., Humphreys, A-L., Lingwood, J., Duirs, N., Holloway, C., Smart, B. (2016)
A Comparative Study of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Shared Reading for Chronic Pain
Project Findings: Short Report

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Billington, J. (2016)
An Evaluation of the ‘City of Readers’ student volunteer initiative at the University of Liverpool
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Billington, J., Dowrick, C., Robinson, J., Hamer, A., Williams, C. (2011)
An investigation into the therapeutic benefits of reading in relation to depression and well-being [Online]
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Davis, P., Billington, J., Corcoran, R., Gonzalez-Diaz, V., Lampropoulou, S., Farrington, G., Magee, F., Walsh, E. (2014)
Assessing the intrinsic value, and health and well-being benefits, for individual and community, of The Reader Organisation’s Volunteer Reader Scheme
Executive Summary

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Billington, J., Humphreys, A. L., Jones, A., McDonnell, K. (2014) 
An Evaluation of a Literature-Based Intervention for People with Chronic Pain
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Davis, P., Billington, J., Carroll, J., Healey, C., Kinderman, P. (2013) 
A literature-based intervention for older people living with dementia
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Robinson, J. and Billington, J. (2013)
An Evaluation of a pilot study of a literature-based intervention with women in prison
Evaluation 

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Robinson, J. (2008) 
Reading and Talking: Exploring the experience of taking part in reading groups at the Walton Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit (NRU).
HaCCRU Research Report. 114/08
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Robinson J. (2008) 
Reading and Talking: Exploring the experience of taking part in reading groups at the Vauxhall Health Care Centre
HaCCRU Research Report. 115/08
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